CRISPR is one of this generation’s most profound innovations, with the potential to fundamentally alter the realm of modern ...

Cardiovascular diseases could be among the world’s first medical conditions to be treated by changing a patient’s genes. If ongoing phase 3 trials succeed, gene editing will offer a novel therapy for ...

A patient in Germany has been successfully treated with a drug based on the CRISPR gene-editing technology for the first time, the Charité medical school and hospital in Berlin announced on Thursday.

Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the University of British Columbia are extending those possibilities to the skin for ...

Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection (tearing) and death in childhood. Currently ...

In a cutting-edge medical experiment, a small group of people who had high cholesterol despite taking conventional drugs to lower it saw significant reductions in two major risk factors for heart ...

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly say GLP-1 drugs slowed aging clocks, but the data are early and unreviewed. Here is what patients should know. A study of 1.4 million women links pregnancy complications to ...

A single dose of an experimental CRISPR therapy cut LDL cholesterol and triglycerides by about half in patients with difficult-to-treat lipid disorders. The reductions were still present one year ...

Crispr stock yo-yoed while Intellia stock surged, on promising updates for their gene-editing efforts in cholesterol treatment and a swelling disorder. At the American Heart Association conference in ...

Intellia Therapeutics said its Crispr-based treatment for a rare swelling condition succeeded in a Phase 3 trial, a landmark for gene editing. The treatment uses Nobel Prize-winning Crispr technology ...

Last month, scientists reported a historic first: they gave the first personalized gene-editing treatment to a baby who was born with a rare life-threatening genetic disorder. Before the treatment, ...